<TITLE>09. Par 36-40</TITLE>L-36 Not long ago, I was coming to a mountain. (Fixing to close now, as I have the healing line.) I had been riding, chasing a bear, and it got night. And I got off my horse and started leading him. And I come into a place where the fire had burnt down a great thicket.
The big old trees was standing there, all the bark burnt off of them. The moon had come out and was shining against them. It looked horrible, looked like a graveyard. The wind was a blowing, and they'd go so mournful as the wind blowed through these trees, old stiff trees, and the wind blowing, going, "Uummm," going back and forth.
And the Lord said to me, "Stop, I want to show you."
And I did. And I looked at the trees. And I thought, "Well, what's the wind blowing for? Well, what makes the trees act like that?"

L-37 And He said to me, "Those trees represent the churches of this day, great, tall, spires--spires. They say, 'Yes, we were once great churches,' but they haven't got no life in them. What the palmerworm has left, the caterpillar eaten. What the caterpillar left, the cankerworm eaten."
And I thought, "Well, what's this." I said, "What does the wind mean?"
He said, "That's the Holy Spirit that come on Pentecost, come like a rushing mighty wind."
And I thought, "What's He blowing against he trees for." And they kept making a mournful noise.

L-38 He said, "Yes, once they were great churches. But what the Lutheran left, the Calvinist eaten. What the Calvinist left, the Anglican eaten. And what the Anglican left, the Methodist eaten. What the Methodist left, the Baptist eaten."
They took all the joy out of the church, called all the Life out of it, saying, "The days of miracles is past." What they got left? A great big old standing spire. And every time the Holy Ghost comes down, they say, "Oooh, don't go out to that thing, because the days of miracle is past." See, they're dead. They can't bend; they ain't got any Life in them.
I said, "Lord, well, what do You send the wind for?"
But He said, "You remember, Joel said, 'I will restore unto you.'"

L-39 Then I looked down, and here was a bunch of little bushes about this tall. When the wind hit them, they just frolicked, just having a big time. They were glorifying God. But these big stiff ones, say, "Oooh." I said, "What a picture. That's true."
And I thought, "Well, what's He shaking the trees for anyhow? What do you make them little trees?"
He said, "I'm bringing up another church. They did have it, but all the parasites has eaten it up with their theology. But I'll bring up another one. (Hallelujah.) I'll bring up another one that'll bow to My Spirit."
And I wonder what makes the little trees bow then, when the wind hits them. Look like a good old Pentecostal meeting, just flexible, shaken by the wind, rejoicing, accepting the Spirit, just having a wonderful time. And I thought, "What do You shake them for?"

L-40 He said, "Every time they shake, they dig down and get a better hold; the roots go deeper. The wind shakes the tree to make it dig down deeper, to make a better tree. Hallelujah.
That's what we need tonight is an old fashion, God-sent, Holy Ghost meeting. That's what Switzerland needs, what Germany needs. That's what the whole world needs. God's got His people. God's got His Spirit here. Just turn loose, and let it be flexible, and the Holy Ghost will show you. Amen.
"I will restore, saith the Lord, all the former days. What they was at Pentecost, that's what they are today. The same Christ, the same power, and everything it was then, God is restoring today.
Little children, in a few hours, God willing, I'll be flying across the sea. If I never see you again in this life, I have told you the truth. You see what supernatural does? It begins in Genesis; it ends in Revelation.


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